Neta Gal-Azmon is an independent contemporary art curator based in Tel Aviv. She is a Candidate for Research Studies (PHD) at the Philosophy School of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel-Aviv University. She has a master’s degree in art history and a bachelor’s degree in cinema studies from Tel Aviv University. Gal-Azmon’s curatorial career began in the mid-1990s as a consultant for and manager of several major international contemporary art collections in Israel, including the Brandes Family Art Collection and the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd. In these capacities she emphasized interconnections between Israeli and international art and strove to link the work of emerging young artists with that of well-established ones. In the early 2000s Gal-Azmon began curating solo shows for up-and-coming and eminent artists in non-profit venues in Tel Aviv. Since then, she has curated numerous solo shows of Israeli and international artists as well as large-scale, thematic group exhibitions in leading contemporary art venues in Israel, including the Petach Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tel Aviv, the Museum of Bat Yam (MoBY), and the Center for Design, Technology and Media in Jerusalem. From 2010 to 2012 she was manager at the Heder Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery in Tel Aviv. Gal-Azmon teached classes in curatorial practice and contemporary art in some of the foremost programs in art studies in Israel, including Tel Aviv University’s faculty of art and the curatorial program at the Technion in Haifa. From 2008 to 2010 she served as academic program coordinator at the Technion and headed the curatorial program at the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, which is on its way to becoming the first Arab museum of contemporary art in Israel. These days she is busy working on two large-scale shows (one for the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the second for the Petach Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art) as well as on establishing a new non-profit Artspace outside Tel-Aviv.
ABOUT
Independent curator of contemporary art
An independent curator of contemporary art
Art Tours in galleries and museums for contemporary art
Lectures On A Diversity Of Subjects In The Field Of Contemporary Art
Professional and Academic Education
2014
Research Studies (PHD), Philosophy School at The Faculty of Humanities, Tel-Aviv University
1997-2003
Master of Arts Program, Department of Art History (specialization: Museology and Modern Art), Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
1995-1997
Curatorship Studies (with Prof. Mordechai Omer), The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
1994-1995
Supplementary Studies towards M.A. Degree in Art History, Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
1991-1994
B.A. Degree in Film and Television, Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
1988 -1989
Miclelet Sapir
1986-1988
Studied Acting at Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, Jerusalem
Experience
Since 2001
Independent Art Curator and Consultant
2013
Lecturer at the Faculty of art Named after Yolanda and David Kats, University of Tel-Aviv
2012
Lecturer at seminars “Ofek Hadash” and “Oz Letmura”, Ministry of Education (professional development seminars for art teachers from junior high school and high school)
2010-2012
Curator and manager, “Hacheder” Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2008-2011
Lecturer in Curatorship Studies, Department for External and Continuing Education, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology: Diploma
2009-2010
Academic Program Coordinator and Lecturer in Curatorship Studies, Dept for External and Continuing Education, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2008-2010
Curating tutoring of the curatorial team of the first Israeli Arab Museum to be established in Israel at the Arabic city Um El-Fahem
2006-2007
Course on Curatorship – The Kibbutz Artists Workshop Multi-Disciplinary Center for Art and Culture
2002-2004
Contributing Writer, Studio Art Magazine, Israel
1988-2001
Curator and Director of the Brandes Family Art Collection, Tel Aviv (one of the largest collections in Israel)
1998
Temporary Curator of the Doron Sabag Art Collection, O.R.S. Ltd., Tel Aviv
1997
Assistant Curator, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1997-1999
Contributing Writer, Mishkafaim, Israel Museum Youth Wing Art Quarterly (Israel Museum & Yedioth Aharonot) Contributing Writer, Einayim, children’s magazine (Schocken Group)
1996-1998
Developed lesson plans in the arts and taught children and youth as part of the Karev Program for Educational Involvement, The Israeli Ministry of Education
Assistant to the Head of Graphics Department, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1996
Worked in the Education Department, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Publications
Quarantine, A video and sound exhibition, The Hansen compound, Centre for Design, Technology, and Media, Jerusalem, October-December 2013
The Hunter, Dina Shenhav, Special Project for “Fresh Paint”
Endless, Zohar Cohen, The Artists House, Jerusalem
Uncanny, Amit BerlowitzSpecial Project for “Fresh Paint”
Final Party, TheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Surgery room, Eran Gilat, Rani Sasson, Keren Yeala-GolanTheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Laborious Object, Sasha SerberTheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
When Yesterday the Sea Was Flat, Zilla LeuteneggerTheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Who am I to you?, Keren Yeala-GolanTheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Balance, Anat BehrmanTheHeder Gallery, Tel Aviv
Vanity & Vapor, Einat Arif-Galanti, TheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Duet, Dina Shenhav and Tal Amitai-LaviTheHeder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Mud Blossoms, Alice Klingman, The Heder Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Paper work, sally krysztal-kramberg & Liat Livni, The Heder gallery, Tel-Aviv
Professional/Husband, Amit Cabessa, Hezi Cohen Gallery, April 2010 (Text)
After the Heat Wave, Elad Kopler, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, June 2009 (Text)
Not one of us, Sasha Serber, Boris Shatz, David Vakshtein, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel-Aviv, March 2008 (Curator)
Meet Me in the Library 9 p.m, Swiss Artist Zilla Leutenegger, The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv, Sept. 2007 (Curator)
Passion, Heskia-Hacmun (Law Firm) Art Project for Original Art Works, Group Exhibition, Haoman 17 Club, August 2007 (Curator)
Sweet 16: On Teenagers and Adolescence, Bat Yam Museum of Art, June-Oct. 2007 (Curator)
Real Women: Portraits, Bayit Banamal, Tel Aviv Port, Sept-Oct 2006 (Curator)
Foreign Language, Asad Azi, and Meir Pichhadze, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, May-Sept. 2005 (Curator)
Fragments: Mosaics and Reality in Contemporary Israeli Art, Zman Le’Omanut, Time for Art Center, Tel Aviv, Nov. 2004 – Jan. 2005 (Curator)
Gideon Gechtman, Works 1973-2003, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, March-April 2003 (Curator)
Why Not: Some Aspects of Contemporary Sculpture, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa, May-July 2003 (Assistant Curator)
Oh-Mama: Representation of the Mother in Israeli Contemporary Art, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, March 1997 (Assistant Curator)
Press News
“From Now On Say: Frieze, the Magazine and the Fair,” Studio Art Magazine 148, November 2003, Havatzeleth, Tel Aviv [Hebrew]
“Aspects of Femininity” (Exhibition Review), Studio Art Magazine 132, March-April 2002, Havatzeleth, Tel Aviv [Hebrew]
“T for Tent, H for House”, Solo Exhibition of Tal Amitai Lavi, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv (Text)
“Earth Art in the Shadow of Photography”, Mishkafaim, Israel Museum Youth Wing Art Quarterly, December 1997, Israel Museum & Yedioth Aharonot, Jerusalem [Hebrew]